republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-2156.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Holidays: Farmworkers Day."
description: "Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state, including Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, and requires the Governor to annually proclaim March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 2156"
citation: "California AB 2156 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FarmworkersDay", "Holidays"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rivas"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-18"
last_action: "2026-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81c442fc-321c-4434-b7e7-8cf95b708d13"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156"
source_hash: "fddda69a90399a55418d239435986fd0bd33ff1849ffbe0ce8946f46d523fe01"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2156 (20252026) — Holidays: Farmworkers Day.

Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state, including Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, and requires the Governor to annually proclaim March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/26 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156&version=20250AB215699INT)
2. **03/20/26 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156&version=20250AB215698AMD)
3. **03/26/26 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156&version=20250AB215696CHP)
4. **AB2156** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156)
5. **03/26/26 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2156&version=20250AB215697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2156 RIVAS Third Reading Urgency By AGUIAR-CURRY — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2156 Rivas et al. By Limón Urgency Clause — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rivas — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Cabaldon — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Caloza — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Ellis — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Limón — author (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- McNerney — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2026-03-09** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-23** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Page 4368.)
- **2026-03-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 4368.)
- **2026-03-23** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2026-03-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2026-03-23** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4374.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2026-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2026-03-23** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 3636.)
- **2026-03-23** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-03-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3698.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2026-03-26** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2026-03-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81c442fc-321c-4434-b7e7-8cf95b708d13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).